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10 Things Young Women May Not Know About Breast Cancer

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While breast cancer is typically seen in older women, it occasionally affects young women, too. The challenge with young women is that the core screening test for breast cancer, the mammogram, is less able to detect breast cancer because breast tissue is denser in younger women. On top of that, less of a focus is placed on young women in medical research because they make up a minority of cases. How much do you know about breast cancer in young women? Here are 10 things you probably haven’t heard.